Israel and the Hamas militant group accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal Sunday, clearing the way for the resumption of talks on a long-term truce to end a month of heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip that has taken nearly 2,000 lives.

As fifth-generation fighters outgrow the Air Force's premiere combat training exercise, the service should look to virtual training for pilots to test the limits of the F-22 and F-35, the outgoing head of Air Combat Command said.

In making the case for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, President Obama is drawing on the doctrine involving the use of American force that he outlined less than three months ago, when it seemed he was trying to avoid potential U.S. military act...

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald addressed a veterans group for the first time since taking over the troubled agency last month, calling his plans to fix it 'an opportunity we can't miss nor underestimate.'

Islamic militants' growing influence in Iraq and Syria is a threat to Americans, lawmakers from both political parties agreed Sunday even as they sharply split on what role the United States should play in trying to crush them.

Throughout Israel’s military operation in Gaza, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan appeared committed to outdoing himself in his hyperbolic criticism of Israel. A series of references to Israel massacring the population of Gaza culmin...

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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) states that "U.S. military forces continued to attack ISIL terrorists in Iraq today, successfully conducting multiple airstrikes." The U.S. has been bombing ISIS positions that threaten the Iraqi Kurd...

In honor of World War I's centennial this year, The Open University has "colorized" a sample of select photos from the conflict with the help of a photograph restoration expert. The photos, which were originally in black and ...

The Islamic State is an increasingly menacing threat to the Middle East, and the extremist group uses brutal tactics and propaganda to instill fear in its enemies. And now the group has threatened to raise its flag over the White House, ...

The Islamic State, or ISIS, has been taking swaths of territory in northern Iraq and Syria in recent weeks. Between taking the city of Mosul, targeting the Yazidis (an ethno-religious minority in Iraq), and battling the Kurdish peshmerga...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney lashed out again at President Barack Obama on Sunday, repeatedly accusing him of projecting "weakness" abroad and "crippling" the U.S. military. The frequent Obama critic told radio show host and GOP meg...

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed approximately 20 million gallons of herbicides across 5.5 million acres of Vietnamese jungle and countryside, an area roughly the size of New Jersey, according to The New York Times. U.S....

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis said that violence and destruction in Iraq offends God and humanity and he held a silent prayer for victims of the conflict during his weekly address in Rome on Sunday. "We are left ...

"War encapsulates the whole range of human experience. That’s what is so seductive about it. It makes you feel alive," says photographer Peter Van Agtmael . Van Agtmael was fascinated by war since a young age. After the terror...

Veterans Affairs Department officials will open their scheduling books to outside reviewers in an effort to get an independent assessment of how to fix medical center wait time problems, VA Secretary Bob McDonald said Friday.

COMBAT FOOTAGE: Below are four videos posted to YouTube.com since Friday by U.S. Central Command. The first two of the videos show F/A-18 Hornet airstrikes in Iraq; the second two show humanitarian airdrops.

KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian military spokesman on Sunday dismissed a call for a ceasefire by a separatist leader, saying this could only take place once rebels had shown "white flags" and surrendered. Meanwhile the separatists stepped b...

“When you get farmers, dentists and folks who have never fought before going up against a ruthless opposition in Assad, the notion that they were in a position to suddenly overturn not only Assad but also ruthless, highly trained jihadis...

Patrick Cockburn at the London Review of Books has a great essay on the rise of ISIS (or The Islamic State) the radical sunni jihadist group that's taking huge swaths of Syria and Iraq. This one paragraph reveals the incredible scope of ...

The BMD-4M is the latest generation of Russian-made airborne armoured infantry fighting vehicle that can be para-dropped to provide firepower and support for airborne troops. It is an upgraded variant of the BMD-4 (BMD-3M). In December 2...

In 2016, the Russian military will start deploying the new long-range surface-to-air missile systems S-500, chief of the Russian Air Forces said. Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev gave an outline of his branch's modernization plans, inc...

The Russian Army has taken delivery of the first btach of new modernised BMD-4M airborne armoured fighting vehicle. Eight vehicles were handed to the manufacturer Kurganmashzavod and delivered to the 106th Guards Airborne Assault Divisio...

US president admits there is no quick fix as minorities flee Islamist onslaught and British planes join relief effort Barack Obama has committed the US to long-term involvement in Iraq, warning that the rapidly evolving crisis in the nor...

Top Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection The Department of Transportation (DoT) Secretary Anthony Foxx announced the relief of $333.9 million in emergency funds from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to assist 21 stat...

Top Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that Hyundai has agreed to pay a $17.35 million civil penalty and comply wi...

Top Priority Sector: border_security U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists at the port of Baltimore have discovered that a shipment of rice from Pakistan was infested with Khapra Beetle larvae. The C...

Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Oakdale, MN-based Imation Corp , a global data storage and information security company, has announced that its IronKey Secure USB devices are not vulnerable to BadUSB malware that was revealed a...

Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Dallas, TX-based CyrusOne has announced that it plans to house the infrastructure and 911-dispatch center for Carrollton, Coppell, Farmers Branch, and Addison, TX. The communiti...

President Obama sought to prepare Americans for an extended presence in the skies over Iraq, telling reporters that the airstrikes he ordered this week, and which continued on Saturday, could go on for months.

Yahoo-owned Flickr, one of the biggest online photo management and sharing website in the world was recently impacted by a web application vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to modify users’ profile image. Flickr is one of the ...

NSA Proof security software assures data encryption making hacking impossible without passwords. An advanced keyless security system has been introduced, which does not involve creation of databases and also doesn’t store passwords. This...

Scammers have again targeted more than one billion active users of the popular social networking giant Facebook, to infect as many victims as possible. This time, an old Facebook scam is back in action once again! Malicious Facebook "Col...

Oracle’s newly launched Data Redaction security feature in Oracle Database 12c can be easily disrupted by an attacker without any need to use exploit code, a security researcher long known as a thorn in Oracle's side said at Defcon. Data...

The Black Hat USA 2014 conference is over, and Naked Security's Chester Wisniewski was there in fabulous Las Vegas to take it all in. And, as we all know, what happens in Vegas... ...gets faithfully reported on the internet!

We’ve been here before when we defeated slavery and the absolute monarchy Defcon 22 A killer combination of rapidly advancing technology and a desire for greater privacy among the public should condemn current surveillance state to an ...

Inventor says, despite it all, he’s still not a cat person Defcon 22 An inventive security researcher has successfully tested a war-driving kitty collar – so its wearer can prowl around the neighborhood exposing the lamentable state of...

Homeland Security’s main contractor in trouble- Crucial personal information likely stolen in a Cyber-attack Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s key contractors states that due to a “state-sponsored” cyber-attack personal infor...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Iraq: 'I strongly support the president's authorization for airstrikes against [Islamic State]. This is not a typical terrorist organization - it is a terrorist army, operating with military expertise,...

News roundup: When a breach occurs, it's common practice to share the information with victims -- both the users and the companies involved. However, Hold Security's billion-password hack disclosure hasn't followed standard procedure.

Signature-sniffers WILL be fooled – researcher Common or garden cybercrooks have taken to using steganography – the art of hiding secret information within another image or message file – to run a click-fraud scam.…